Caterpillar Marine Power Systems (CMPS) has been awarded a contract to supply the main engines on new cruise ships for US-based Norwegian Cruise Line (NCL Corp. NCL will introduce a new generation of Freestyle Cruising vessels, underlining its goal to have the youngest fleet in the cruise industry by 2010. CMPS will supply 3x MaK 12 M 43 C and 3x MaK 16 M 43 C marine engines per vessel, which will form a power plant providing a total of 79.8 MW for ship propulsion and on-board electricity supply. Aker Yards S. A. in Saint Nazaire, France has a firm order from NCL to build two cruise vessels under the project name F3 for delivery in 2009 and 2010. NCL has an option for a third vessel due for delivery in 2011. The capacity of these ships will be some 6,400 people.